print "hello", >> file

[Jp Calderone]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 06:36:20PM +0000, phil hunt wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:04:14 -0500, Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
> >phil hunt wrote:
> >> 
> >> Wouldn't it be nice if appending to a file, appending to a string
> >> and appending to stdout had the same syntax?
> >> 
> >>    f = file("somefilename", "w")
> >>    f << "hello"
> >> 
> >>    s = "some string"
> >>    s << "hello"
> >> 
> >>    out << "hello"
> >
> >Since you can't append to a string,
> 
> But I can:
> 
>    philh:~> python
>    Python 2.0 (#1, Jan 19 2001, 17:54:27)
>    [GCC 2.95.2 19991024 (release)] on linux2
>    Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>    >>>
>    >>>
>    >>> s = "some string"
>    >>> s += "hello"
>    >>> s
>    'some stringhello'
>           

  This rebinds "s" to a new string object.  I suppose this hypothetical "<<"
operator could do the same.  OTOH, why does anyone want yet -another- way to
concatenate strings?

  Jp

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